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Many people decorate fences and trees with beads.
Photo Challenge for this week from Kim at Thinking Through my Lens: Spirited. There is nothing more spirited at this time of year in South Louisiana than Mardi Gras. I came to New Orleans to spend time with family (my sister and hers from Texas, and my daughter home from Chicago). Of course, while I am here, we ventured out to a day of parades on St. Charles.
With my sister’s family, I wrote a list poem of the variety of throws.
Mardi Gras Throws, a List poem
Krewe of Tucks
Animal house rules
toilet plunger, toilet paper,
toilet glasses, too.Krewe of Thoth
purple fedora
super-duper stuffed banana,
beads, doubloons, and cups.Big Bacchus
Bacchasaurus, Bacchagator,
Bacchawoppa whale,
Laser lights, beads fly,
masks of flashing colors,
where the wild things are.
Toilet paper hangs like tinsel lit up by Bacchus lights. Confetti looks like snow.
Bacchagator catches throw backs.
Hands up, beads flying
Reflections on the Teche 